Icebreaker Magadan

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The Icebreaker Magadan is a large modern Russian icebreaker.[1][2] She was completed in 1982.[3] She is the smallest of Fesco Transport Group's fleet of five icebreakers.

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[edit] Specifications

Magadan specifications[4]
characteristics value
Length 88.49 m
Beam 20.00 m
Draft 10.50 m
Speed 16 knots
Tonnage
Deadweight 1909.0 t
Register tonnage gross 5342
Net 1603

[edit] 2006

In 2006 she was chartered by a joint expedition to survey Walrus abundance.[1][2]

[edit] 2003

In 2003 the Magadan participated in a training exercise with vessels of other nations.[5]

[edit] 2000

Magadan towed a Russian warship to be broken up in India in 2000.[6]

[edit] 1999

On March 6, 1999 The Magadan lead a rescue effort to escort vessels carrying supplies to isolated Kamchatka settlements that were dangerousely short of fuel.[7]

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[edit] References

  1. ^ a b "International Polar Year 2007-2008: News, Updates & Background", United States Geological Survey, 2007-2008. Retrieved on 2008-02-19. 
  2. ^ a b "Ice breaker MAGADAN research expedition in the Bering Sea is completed", Fesco Transport Group, April 3, 2006. Retrieved on 2008-02-19. 
  3. ^ "Fesco Vessels", Fesco Transport Group. Retrieved on 2008-02-19. 
  4. ^ "Fesco Vessels: Magadan", Fesco Transport Group. Retrieved on 2008-02-19. 
  5. ^ "The joint Russian-Japanese-Korean exercises start in the Sea of Japan", Pravda, August 25, 2003. Retrieved on 2008-02-19. 
  6. ^ "Russian shipping lines see icebreakers as "impossible luxury"", ITAR-TASS news agency, November 8, 2000. Retrieved on 2008-02-19. "Magadan was towing a Russian warship to India to the breaker's yard." 
  7. ^ "Russian Far East: Ice-breaker to help supply Kamchatka District with fuel", ITAR-TASS news agency, March 6, 1999. Retrieved on 2008-02-10. "Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, 6th March, ITAR-TASS correspondent Sergey Borovkov: The Magadan ice-breaker is the last hope of the inhabitants of Karaginskiy District in Koryak Autonomous Area. Only the ice-breaker is capable of making its way through the heavy ice and escort two ships, a tanker and a dry-cargo vessel, which are to deliver diesel fuel and coal for the District's freezing settlements at the port centre of Ossora.ITAR-TASS was told by the Koryak civil defence and..."